Brassiere



Aug. 23, 1955 c. ROSENBAUM BRASSIERE Original Filed Nov. 24, 1948 IN VENTOR. ROSENBAUM .D E .b Du m C Unitecl States Patent Ofilice 2,715,734Patenaed Aug. 23, 1955 BRASSIERE Charles Resenbanm, New York, N. Y.

Subsiituted fr abandsned applicafion Serial N0. 61,760, November 24,1948. This apyiieafian November 23, 1954, Serial N0. 479,651?

4 Clams. (Cl. 2--42) This invention relates to new and usefulimprovernents in brassieres, and, more particularly, the airn is toprovide a novel and valuable brassiere of relatively simple comstructionyet a brassiere Witn the arts thereof so arranged and coacting while thebrassiere is being worn (hat the cups thereof enclose and rnaintainseparater! and properly uplift the breasts while holding them forwardlyprojected, in an improved manner. This is a substitute for rny fonnerapplication filed on November 24, 1948, Serial Number 61,760.

A feature of the invention is the rovision of a breast cup having anideally modified yet generally conical forrn, and this preferably as theresult of the employmenc of a single blank cut in such wise and sostitched along meeting edge portions of the said blank to provide asingle seam rising along the height of the cup to and somewhat beyondthe apex of such cone.

A further feature of the invention is the rovision of a breast cup,preferably made as just described, which is maintained in its generallyconical form, and particularly against localized outward bulgingsconsequent upon stretch of the maten'al cf the cup, to an extent to keepthe cup frorn departing frorn the norm of said conical form, by theaddition of a plurality of spaced substantially concentric and generallycircularly extending non-stretchable tapes stitched to the cuppreferably at the interior thereof.

In combination With the two breast cup structures, a chest encirclingmain mernber or structure is provided for carryi.ng the two breast cupsat correctly horizontally spaced locations, as is conventional, but saidstrap memher er structure according to the present invention is cfimproved constmction and of a construction especially adapted to coactWith the prevised functioning o-f the breast cups.

A feature of the invention, in the last connection, is the making ofsaid main mernber or structure, which may be called the chest girdle, oftwo reversely arranged like pieces of a substantially non-stretchabletextile material each having a reduced forward end extension attached tothe onter side and along the bottom of the base of the adjacent breastcup, a third piece of substantially non-stretchable textile materialhaving the outline of an inverted V and attached at its opposite sidesalong the remainder of the bottoms and along the inner sides of thebases of both breast cups, and a piece of elastic webbing, of theoutline substantially of an upright tria.ngle Which preferably is anisoceles triangle and attached along its upwardly converging sides tothe inner of the two legs of said inverted V.

Thereby, for coaction With the behavior of the brassiere while nnderhorizontal-stretch stress across the front of said g1'rdle and betweenpoints on the latter below the apices of the two breast cups, fourrather closely adjacent seams are present, these variously inclined fromthe vertical, for conjointly functioning as parts of a set cfstay-rneans to hold the central front portion of said girdle flatagainst the inter-breasts space of the body of the wearer.

Various other features and advantages of the invention will becomeapparent or be pointed out hereinafter.

F01 further cornprehension of the invention, and of the objects andadvantages thereof, reference will be had to the following, descriptionand accompanying drawing, and to the appended claims in which thevarious novel features of the invention are more particularl y setforth.

In the aecompanying drawing forming a material part of this disclosure:

Fig. 1 is a front elevational view showing a now favored embodiment ofthe invention, With said girdle spread substantially flat.

Fig. 2 is an end elevation, looking toward the left in Fig. l.

Fig. 3 shows the components of a breast cup structure, fabricated bystitching together certain like edge portions of a blank componentthereof, prior to inclusion of two such breast cup structures in thebrassiere in relation 10 the rernainder of the garn1ent as illustratedin Fig. l.

Referring to the drawing more in detail, the brassiere cf Figs. 1 and 2is shown as comprised cf the already mentioned chest girdle, this as awhole designated 10, a pair of breast cups 11", and a pair ofconventional shoulder straps 12, each of these last shown as includingtwo strap elements connected by a friction-type buckle 14 whereby theseshoulder straps are adjustable as to length.

F01 varying the unstretched body girthing length of the chest girdle 10,the same 1's shown as provided at one end, at the location of a suitableinside finishing ofl and reinforeing strip 15, with a plurality of thehook elements 16 of the familiar hook-and-eye class of fastener.

For selective use in coupling relation to said hooks, the other end ofthe chest girdle 10 is shown as provided With two blanks 17 and 13 ofthe eye elements complementary to the said hooks 16. The elements 17 and18 are secured on an end-piece 19 formed cf a suitable plurality ofstepped plies of a non-stretchable textile material Said end-piece 19 isstiched at its inner end to one end of an elastic webbing strip 2{3 withits stretch in the direction of length of the chest g1'rdle; and saidstrip 20 is stitched at its inner end to the adjacent end of the chestgirdle.

Bach breast cup 11 is made frorn a single blank 21 of a non-stretchabletextile material. Such blank 21, as will be noted frorn Fig. 3, islargely bounded by a generally convexly curvilinear edge extending froma point 22 to a point 23, With, preferably, said edge including astraight edge portion 24 beyond the point 22, next a straight edgeportion 25 extending at an obtnse angle from the straight edge portion24, next a straight edge portion 26 extending at an obtuse angle to thestraight edge portion 25, and next a rather long arcuately curved edgeportion 27 connecting the edge ortion 26 and the point 23. The center ofthe circle containing such arc is substantially at the point 28. Theremainder of the perimeter of the blank 21 is comprised 0f substantiallystraight edge portions 29 and 30 merging into smallradius convexlyeurved ends 29** and 30 leading to the point 28.

Before being formed into a breast cup 11, a blank 21 has attachedthereto, as by suitable lines of stitching as indicated, a plurality,here shown as three, of non-stretchable tapes 31, 32 and 33. These tapesare arcuately extended along circles of difiering diameters but allcoucentric With the point 28.

The blank 21 as thus equipped With said tapes 31-33 is formed into abreast cup 11 by stitching together the edges 29 and 30, from the points22-23 to the point 28, to establish a seam and t0 secure at said searnthe oppohas a bottom cut-eut of inverted-V type.

out is an insert 42 of elastic Webbing. Said insert is as. shownpreferably in the shape of an isosceles triangle,

site ends cf the tapes 31-33; such seam to be at the ii1side of thegaiment. 7

At 34 in Fig. 2 is indicated a soft, preferably netted and gauze-likefabric liner for each breast cup. This liner j is for giving a breastcup an interior fi.nish and to pro yide a protective andirritation-inhibiting overlay relative to the tapes and seamlast-narned; such a seam being designated 35 in'Figs. 1 and 2. The liner34is cut to the Same shape as the blank 21, and the edges cf the linercorresponding to the edges 29 and 30 of said blank are secured togetherat the seam 35 cf its breast cup 11. The chest girdle 10 includes twolike pieces 36, 36 of 1ion-stretchable textile material cut to havefinally the outline illustrated in Fig. l, these pieces being reverselyarranged for symmetrical placement thereof inthe chest girdle as Shown;and said chest girdle further includes a central piece 37 ofnon-stretchable textile material, this piece 37 being substantially ofinverted-V outline. With each piece 36 at its inner end seamed as shownto the adjacent end of the central piece 37, and with shortnonstretchable tapes 38 secured along the two seams last referred to,stay elements are established at said searns which are inclined from thevertical and downwardly converge.

{The two breast cups 11 made as above described are 'arranged on thestructure 373637 with the seams 35 of said cups positionall? related asillustrated, and then each breast cup is secured to the piece 37 and toone of the pieces 36 by an arcuately extending seam 39; which seamextends from its terminus 39 (corresponding to about the point marked39f in. Fig. 3) to its other terminus 39 (corresponding to about thepoint marked 39" in Fig. 3). Ihus the major portion of the basalperimeter of a breast cup 11 is attached, in larger art, to a piece 36 fthebhest girdle 10, and, in lesser art, to the piece 37 of said girdle;

The chest'girdle =is suitably finished otf, pr6 ferably at the interiorcf the garment, as by the addition of marginally applied tapes inclusiveof two bottc n1 tapes 40, 40, and a top tape 41. Bach bottorn tape isshown as extended from the outer end of a piece 36 of the girdle 10 toand across a tape 38 and to the immer extremity of one .of the twodownwardly diverging legs of the central piece 37 of the girdle. The toptape 41 is shown as extending over the entirety of the undulatory upperlength of the girdle, from thereinforcing strip 15 to the end of thegirdle main structure where the same is stitched to the elastic webbingstrip 20.

Along the central M-extended portion of the length cf said tape 41, theremainder cf the basal perimeters of the two breast cups 11 are seeuredto the chest girdle 10; thereby imparting to said cups their inverted-Vtop portions as illustrated in Fig. 1. At the crests of these lastnamedtop portions, the strap elemehts of the shoulder straps 12 which carrythe buckles 14 are at their lower and is cutto have its direction ofstretch parallel with the base of the triangle. The insert 42 along itstwo sides out of the latter by lines of stitching which attach a singlenon-stretchable tape 43. It is to be noted that eachof the tapes 38, andthe adjacent leg of the tape 43, comverge ddwnwardly.

'The breast cups 11 are properly conical, yet with roimded tips, and areheld thus by the tapes. 3133.

* The ehe st girdle 10, aside from such stretch longitudinally of saidperimeter being made of a plurality of substanthereof as is permitted atthe elastic webbing 20, has a special horizontal stretch at the elasticwebbing insert42, but, nevertheless, since at the inter-breasts region.of the chest girdle, all over such region except at said insert 42,stretch is prevented, and particularly along the lines of extension ofthe two tapes 38 and of the two legs cf the tape 43, the chest girdle isforced to lie flat against the body of the wearer and substantially inthe plane including the root areas of the breasts. At the Same time,each breast is held separated, prop'erly uplifted and comfortably seatedin a breast Cup having the'shape characteristics just aboveagainmentioned. This shape of a breast cup is rnaintained by the tapes3133 which prevent stretching. At the top 0f a cup 11 the same mergesinto a shaped subdivision suggestive *of a Segment of a pyramid, whichportion of the cup is subjected first to upward pull from the shoulderstraps12.

While I have illustrated and described the preferred embodirnent ofmy'invention, it is to be understood that I do not lirnit inyself to theprecise construction herein disclosed and the right is reserved to allchanges and modifications corning Within the scope of the inven**fln asdefined in the appended claims. Having thuS described my invention, what1 claim' as new, and desire to secure by United States Letters Patent l.A blank for forming the breast cup of a brassiere, comprising a singlepiece of non-stretchable material shaped t0 have the outline of asegment greater than a half segrnent of a substantiall} circular figure,the edge portions of said blank which extend toward the center of 7 suchcircle being substantially straight along'the major portions of theirlengths, and their inner extennities be.

ing convexly curved thereby to give a rounded tip to the cup consequentupon the establishment of the seam.

2. A blank for forming the breastcup of a brassiere, cornprising asingle piece of non-stretchable material shaped to have the outline of asegment greater than a tially straight lines each at an obtuse angle toan adjoining ne.

3. A btassiere compn'sing a chest girdle carrying a pair of spacedsubstantially conically shaped breast cups of l relativelynbn-stretehable material, and a plurality of reinforcing tapes stitchedall along their lengths within each of said cups and c0rnpletelyencircling the same, each of said tapes within each of said cups beingwholly spaced from another and said tapes being concentrically a1-iranged relative to substantially the top Center of the respectivebreast cup, each of said cups having a rounded tip and having a basalperimeter which is arcuately curVed over about half said perimeter, therernainder of said perimeter having a plurality of substantiallystraight lines each at an obtuse angle to an ac ljoining one, saidgirdle rising from said base is seeured to the piece 37 at the cuti?having a top edge the central port icm of Which is of lv'l- H extensionthereby to present two triangular upwardly projecting areas, said areasspaced longitudinally f the girdle, each of said cups over.a part 05itsbasal perimeter being attached to the two upwardly converging sidescf one of said triangular areas, one ofsaid substantially straight linesubdivisious of the basal perimeterof each cup being of a lengthvsubstantially equal t the length of each of the upwardly convergingsides of the respective triangular areas,

4., A brassiere comprising a chest girdle carrying a pair cf spacedsubstantially conically shaped breast cups of relatively non-stretchablematerial, and a plurality of reinforcing tapes stitched all along theirlengths within eacl1 of said cups and completely encircling the same,each of said tapes within each of said cups being wholly spaced fromanother and said tapes being concentrically an-anged relative tosubstantially the top center of the respective breast cup, each of saidcups having a rounded tip and having a basal perimeter which isarcuately curved over about half said perimeter, the remainder of saidperimeter having a plurality of substantially straight lines each at anobtuse angle to an adjoining one, said girdle having a top edge thecentral portion of which is of M- extension thereby to preseut twotriangular upwardly projecting areas, said areas spaced longitudinallyof the girdle, each of said cups over a part of its basal perimeterbeing attached to the two upwardly converging sides of one of saidtriangular areas, one of said substantially straight line subdivisionsof the basal perimeter of each cup being of a length substantially equalto the length of each of the upwardly converging sides of the respectivetriangular areas, another of said substantially straighf. h'nesubdivisions of said basal perirneter being so shaped and arranged that,with the said first one of said subdivisions attached to one cf saidsides of the respective triangular areas and With the said othersubdivision attached to the other of the sides of the respectivetriangular area, the portion of the cup extending from its apex towardthe vrespective areas is shaped like a segment of a pyramid.

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